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- 1. the murder of a large number of people: "the mass murder of approximately six million European Jews during World War Two"
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3 days ago · Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state -sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used in almost every part of the world. Since the mid-19th century many countries have abolished or discontinued the practice. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In 2022, the five countries that executed the ...
3 days ago · Kingdom of Italy. (1941–1945) Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد أمين الحسيني; c. 1897[a] – 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. [5] Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, [6] who trace their origins to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.
3 days ago · It was the biggest mass murder involving Canadians in Canada's history. On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over the village of Lockerbie, Scotland, while en route from London's Heathrow Airport to New York's JFK. The bombing killed all 259 people on board, 243 passengers and 16 crew members, plus 11 people on the ground ...
3 days ago · The Iron Guard (Romanian: Garda de Fier) was a Romanian militant revolutionary religious fascist movement and political party founded in 1927 by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu as the Legion of the Archangel Michael (Legiunea Arhanghelul Mihail) or the Legionary Movement (Mișcarea Legionară). [24] It was strongly anti-democratic, anti-capitalist ...
2 days ago · After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which federally guaranteed the right to an abortion, in June 2022, states have enacted a range of laws.At least 14 have implemented near-total abortion bans, while others have enshrined the right to abortion access in state law or passed shield laws protecting patients from other states who travel to get the procedure.
3 days ago · Uzbekistan, [a] officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, [b] is a doubly landlocked country located in Central Asia.It is surrounded by five countries: Kazakhstan to the north, Kyrgyzstan to the northeast, Tajikistan to the southeast, Afghanistan to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southwest, making it one of only two doubly landlocked countries on Earth, the other being Liechtenstein.
3 days ago · South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [14] [15] [16] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
